Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
An engaging environmental investigation argues that confronting animal agriculture is essential to any meaningful vision of planetary sustainability.
Overview
A humorous yet eye-opening exploration of the environmental crisis we face today.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- provocative
- earnest
- witty
- environmental discussion
- activist film night
What critics said
Audiences and environmental film festivals responded positively to its accessible advocacy, while critics challenged its central greenhouse-gas claim and scientific methodology.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Kip Andersen seeks answers from prominent environmental groups that he believes avoid confronting animal agriculture.
Andersen’s journey as an aspiring environmentalist drives the film’s interviews, research, and sustainability argument.
The film explicitly presents its environmental investigation as shocking yet humorous rather than solely grim or academic.
The film argues that livestock and meat production are a central destructive force behind climate and environmental problems.
Films like Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, and why
An Inconvenient Truth
environmental documentary activism and urgent critique of institutional responses
Food, Inc.
investigative environmental documentary focused on food systems and sustainability
Before the Flood
provocative environmental advocacy documentary using accessible exposition and personal investigation
Movie Details
- Directors
- Keegan Kuhn, Kip Andersen
- Release Date
- 2014-07-01
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 (530)
Cast
- Kip Andersen
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret about?
- An engaging environmental investigation argues that confronting animal agriculture is essential to any meaningful vision of planetary sustainability.
- What is Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.
- What did critics think of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret?
- Audiences and environmental film festivals responded positively to its accessible advocacy, while critics challenged its central greenhouse-gas claim and scientific methodology.
- Which films are like Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret?
- Films with a similar feel include An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., and Before the Flood.
- How long is Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret?
- Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret runs 90 minutes.
- Where can I watch Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret?
- In United States, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
